World Briefing | Africa: Zambia: Opposition Leader Charged

In the latest flare-up of political tensions, a leader of the country's new opposition party has been charged with defaming the president, Frederick Chiluba. Edith Nawkiwa, secretary general of the Forum for Democracy and Development, was labor minister until May when she and several other ministers quit to protest President Chiluba's effort to change the Constitution to allow him to stand for a third term. The police said Ms. Nawikwa called the president a ''thief'' during a recent rally. Henri E. Cauvin (NYT)